Natchez Festival of Music

Artistic Director leads the helm of the Natchez Festival of Music, primary sponsor of live, world-class music and theater, as well as internationally and nationally recognized performers, in southwest Mississippi and the eastern region of central Louisiana (the Miss-Lou) year-around leading up to the May Festival Season. The Festival provides positive performing opportunities for outstanding up and coming young artists during the Season and leading up to the Season with the outreach school enrichment program in the Miss-Lou. The Festival also has a tremendous regional outreach program. The Festival produced its first season in 1991, and that tradition has continued each May in Natchez—the gem of the Miss-Lou. It produces and features operas, operettas, Broadway musicals, jazz, recitals, and special concerts. In 2013 it hosted international superstars Paul Groves, Lucas Meachem and Emily Pulley along with regional treasures Maryann Kyle and Robert Grayson in A Bel Canto Gala, with a first-rate concert of familiar pieces from Carousel, West Side Story, Les Misérables and beautiful operas. This was a "rare musical experience, the kind that is normally only available in cities like New York, London, or Milan..." Opus3Artists, New York. Often, events include parties and galas at historic homes and churches, making the events particularly special.